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Central banks around the world are exploring and in some cases even piloting Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). CBDCs promise to realize a broad range of new capabilities, including direct government disbursements to citizens, frictionless consumer payment and money-transfer systems, and a...
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, based on cognitive costs of budgeting and perceptual biases, rather than self-control problems. …
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We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the children's share requires the observation of at least one adult-specific good. However, our...
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We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in the household and indifference scales in Lewbel (2003)’s sense. A practical...
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It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage-moderating (wageincreasing) effect so that...
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We develop a standard search-matching model in which mobility costs are so high that it is too costly for workers to … and commuting costs because firms need to compensate the transportation cost difference between the employed and …
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Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. When measurement costs differ among firms …
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macroeconomic volatilities. In our subsequent empirical estimations, we find that higher labor turnover costs have a statistically … theory. While labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they do not seem to have much of an effect … and inflation volatility ; labor turnover costs ; unemployment benefits ; unemployment ; eurozone …
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The paper provides a framework for the conceptualization, definition and estimation of legacy costs that need to be … NDC reform in China. -- legacy costs ; pension reform ; NDC ; coverage expansion …
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paper, we show that frictions in the labour market leading to monitoring costs tend to reduce the growth of the firm via two … to both frictions in the credit and labour markets. -- entrepreneurship ; monitoring costs ; credit constraint …
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